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Salvator Mundi
Around the year 1500, Leonardo da Vinci painted Christ as the Saviour of the World. Then the painting vanished for over three centuries.
In 2005, it resurfaced at a small auction, completely overpainted, bought for less than $10,000. Years of careful restoration by scholars revealed what lay beneath: one of fewer than twenty surviving Leonardo paintings.
In 2017, it sold at Christie's for $450.3 million. The most expensive painting ever sold. The buyer has never displayed it publicly.
One detail still puzzles scholars: Christ holds a crystal sphere that shows no optical distortion. Leonardo, a master of optics, would have known this was impossible. He painted it that way deliberately.
Why This Print
Salvator Mundi means Saviour of the World. Christ raises his right hand in blessing and holds a crystal orb in his left, a symbol of his dominion over the earth. It is one of the oldest and most direct depictions of Christ's divine authority in Western art, and for five centuries it has been largely invisible: overpainted, disputed, locked away.
I chose Hahnemühle Museum Etching for this work. It is a heavily textured 100% cotton paper: matte, warm, and dense. For a painting this dark, with this much shadow and this much fine detail in the face and hands, the surface adds depth without introducing gloss that would fight the image. It also ages the way the painting ages: slowly, and well.
This is the print I chose to open the collection with. Christ as Saviour of the World belongs on the wall of a Christian home. It always did.
My Process
I begin with the highest-resolution source of the painting available: institutional photography, museum archives, scholarly publications. From there I prepare the image for print: correcting damage, recovering faded colour, resolving the degradation that centuries of handling leave behind. The aim is not interpretation. It is fidelity to the quality the original demands.
The result is printed on Museum Etching in my studio in Ptuj, Slovenia.
Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam.
For the greater glory of God.
The Print, Up Close
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Salvator Mundi
Hahnemühle Museum Etching · Printed in Slovenia
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My name is Dominic. I am an engineer from Ptuj, Slovenia's oldest city, but my vocation belongs to faith and art. I founded St. Dominic Press as a devotion: to bring the beauty of sacred art into the Christian home, held to the highest standards I know how to reach. I chose to open this collection with Salvator Mundi. Because it seemed right that the press should begin with Christ.
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The 1531 Reveal
The sacred image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, printed on archival canvas. The First Edition is limited to 48 numbered pieces. Each enters the St. Dominic Press Registry upon release. Registered collectors receive priority access before the public announcement.
48 pieces. First Edition.
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